Visual Studio business news

Visual Studio 2010 - Microsoft Acquires Teamprise and provide support for Eclipse IDE, Unix / Linux / Mac OS X platforms

Dannawi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:24:00 GMT

On November 9, 2009 Microsoft announced the acquisition of most of the technology assets of Teamprise, a division of SourceGear LLC, a provider of client applications for accessing Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Foundation Server from the Eclipse IDE...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Test and Lab Management ressources

Dannawi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:31:00 GMT

A good source of information on Visual Studio 2010 Test and Lab Management is the respective team blogs at VSTS Quality tools blog and Lab Management team blog . J....(read more)

“Visual Studio 2010 – the ultimate offer” roadshow - invitation

Dannawi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:37:00 GMT

The next wave of the latest Microsoft technologies is about to land on our shores, providing new and exciting ways to develop custom applications. Visual Studio 2010 is the upcoming release of Microsoft’s market leading integrated Development Tool Platform...(read more)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 – 4 major announcements today (what you need to know)

Dannawi — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:08:00 GMT

Here we go; we have 4 key announcements today to the developer community Information #1: Visual Studio 2010 (and .NET Framework 4) will be officially launched on March 22 nd , 2010. Microsoft has also simplified the product lineup, customers will be able...(read more)

Microsoft Courier: not a new tablet ... a Booklet :)

Dannawi — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:24:00 GMT

What a good suprise with this Microsoft Courier (still not officially confirmed) I'm happy to see Microsoft moving forward on the Tablet concept with not only a technological platform but an end-user solution with the final experience "built right" (that...(read more)

Why building software solution during this (soon over) Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is a key priority?

Dannawi — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:27:00 GMT

Any enterprise, during a downturn or a slowdown, will focus on 2 priorities · Growing the share · Reducing the operational cost Why growing the share? If you can’t increase your revenue with your customers as they are asking you to cost less, then you...(read more)

Check the URL - "Wehatemanualtesting"

Dannawi — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:30:00 GMT

Funny URL but a good reference page http://wehatemanualtesting.spaces.live.com J....(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 - Oracle database development support

Dannawi — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:07:00 GMT

In Visual Studio Team System 2010, Microsoft made this area of the product extensible in order to support 3rd party databases. Quest Software is hard at work on a database schema provider to support Oracle database development from within Visual Studio...(read more)

August 6th: Windows 7 RTM bits on MSDN

Dannawi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:07:00 GMT

from the Windows team blog ' Here is a good news, who are eagerly waiting for Windows 7 RTM. Today Microsoft stated, Windows 7 RTM will be available on Microsoft Connect, MSDN and TechNet on August 6th. Windows 7 RTM will be available to download from...(read more)

Windows Azure: Pricing and licensing

Dannawi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:10:00 GMT

Pricing and licensing overview: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/pricing.mspx ex: Windows Azure: Compute = $0.12 / hour Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month Storage Transactions = $0.01 / 10K Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB SQL Azure: Web Edition –...(read more)

Sketch flow … the missing link?

Dannawi — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:58:00 GMT

How are you capturing the business needs when building a software application? Data diagram, requirements? Can your business contacts (the one requesting a new solution through a software application) understand and read these “pre-technical” documents?...(read more)

Moving from CVS or SVN (Subversion) to TFS (Visual STudio Team Foundation Server) ?

Dannawi — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:09:00 GMT

Best of breed open source solution will not help you in supporting the best practices when building application software. Even if you invest a lot of time (and money), you will only acheive a minimum level of integration (source control and project management...(read more)

Integration between Word and TFS (Team Foundation Server) with Team Spec

Dannawi — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:26:00 GMT

Have you heard about TeamSpec ? Team Spec provides rich team project artifact management directly inside Microsoft Office Word allowing specification, requirement, and other document content to maintain integrity with TFS (Visual Studio Team Foundation...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 - Introduction to manual testing

Dannawi — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:58:00 GMT

Despite all of the advances in automated testing tools and frameworks over the last decade, manual testing still constitutes the lion's share of testing effort within most software development organizations. This episode of 10-4 will introduce the new...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 : Web based training

Dannawi — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:58:00 GMT

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=e...(read more)